st: AW: copydesc with a twist??

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-ssc d copydesc- looks like old code to me, although it may well serve a
useful purpose, and only got like 35 hits last month. It is # 66 on Nick`s
hit list (-ssc hot, auth(cox) n(66)-), but no discussion related to it has
been recorded in the archive since the end of 2003. That could be because
official -clonevar- can do its job more efficiently. Since Nick is the
author of the official command as well, there might be a connection there...
HTH
Martin
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Robert (JSC-SK)[USRA]
Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Mai 2010 17:37
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Betreff: st: copydesc with a twist??
I'm looking for a quick way to copy variable labels from a set of variables
(ex. x1-x100) to a set of new variables (ex. a1-a100), but I need a minor
modification of the new labels.
Nicholas' copydesc command comes very close, as I can imbed it in a loop as:
For J in num 1/100: copydesk xJ aJ
But here's the rub. In this case all of the aJ variables are a
transformation of xJ. I'd like the transformation to become part of the
variable label too.
Here are two variables as a specific example:
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
----------------------------------------------------------------
x2 float %8.0g HeadGy
a2 float %9.0g abs(x2)
I would LIKE the label for a2 to be "abs(HeadGy)" not "abs(x2)". I have a
zillion of these, so I don't want to hand-code them all...
Anyone know of an ado already written to do this? Or a way to use
copydesc??
Much appreciated,
Rob
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